# untitled (an ascetic delay) While I was sleeping Why'd you tell me this? Were you looking for my reaction? What do you need to know? You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers you are my country now you can tell me why you hate him, you can tell me what you thought I was there's nothing waiting, there's nothing imminent, Thought we'd closed the book - locked the door Father says everything will be allright and Mother says imaginations running wild and then one thing leads to another, I guess, I spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile try and tear me down, I dare you I wish I was like you. Easily amused, Did you rush to the phone to call? Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind? Did you say "no, this can't happen to me," 400 years And it's the same -The same philosophy i looked at the pictures, imagine where they lay away, i stand up next to the mountain - Hear the signs and know they're speaking to you, to you. I see your face everywhere, Still you say "The massive influx of impressions is so great; surprising, barbaric, and violent things so overpoweringly Father, can you hear me? How have I let you down?� Always, I'm surprised how well you Cut my feelings to the bone "Why are you so far away?", she said. Oh my kiss breath turpentine, I am smitten Black eyed ravens, They spiral down beast in a black bed, i bend my head back over doubt and shout, snort for short beat in a black bed i bend my head back over my shoulders and nobody seems surprised, I hear the train a comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend. "Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you? How'd you get your teeth so pearly?� I learned as a child not to trust in my body I've carried that burden through my life. once I dreamed I was dancing with Isadora Duncan I got up off that concrete, bare-assed, naked, and thought to myself: I've just been pretending I'm a pirate and mean and an Arab terrorist and have no morals Whatever we deny or embrace, For worse or for better I�m so bored with the u s a... I�m so bored with the u s a...
